Strength of Women Ministers in Modi Govt Gets Reduced to 7 from 10

New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi’s new council of ministers has seven women. His outgoing ministry had ten women ministers.

The seven women ministers who took oath on Sunday included Nirmala Sitharaman and Annapurna Devi as cabinet ministers and the rest five are Ministers of State. Ministers of state to be retained on Sunday are Shobha Karandlaje from Karnataka and Anupriya Patel of Apna Dal from UP.

Raksha Khadse, Savitri Thakur and Nimuben Bambhaniya are the new ministers of state.

Smriti Irani, Meenakshi Lekhi, Bharti Pawar, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Darshana Jardosh and Pratima Bhoumik were dropped.

Irani and Pawar lost from Amethi and Dandori (Maharashtra), respectively. Darshana Jardosh, Lekhi and Bhoumik were dropped from the ministry by the BJP.